SESSION 5: IT Acquisition Reform
How Do We Do More With Less?

SESSION ABSTRACT

Define "C4I acquisition efficiency" as delivering better information processing capability, faster and at less cost-per-capability. FIST, which stands for Fast, Inexpensive, Simple, and Tiny, is a refreshingly enlightened and pragmatic approach that aims to catalyze a "more-with-less" revolution across the Defense Acquisition Enterprise. DI2E is a likewise pragmatic, enlightened approach to achieve C4I acquisition efficiency by incentivizing re-use of software components--within an agile evolutionary engineering process--across the Defense Intelligence Information Enterprise. Plug Fest is a best practice for demonstrating the value of IT component interoperability recently adapted for government purposes. This session will explore the pragmatics of how FIST in general, and DI2E in particular can achieve, C4I acquisition efficiency, and how Defense Enterprise Plug Fests work.

More with Less within the
Defense Intelligence Information Enterprise

Kevin West
OUSD(I) Deputy Director
for ISR Enterprise Programs

May 22, 2013 13:00

ABSTRACT

BIO

DI2E Center of Excellence

LTC Ed Lane
USA(ret)

May 22, 2013 at 13:00

ABSTRACT

The envisioned DI2E will provide a fully integrated, cross-domain, globally-connected, all-source intelligence enterprise that is comprised of the federated intelligence mission architectures of the Military Services, Combat Support Agencies, Combatant Commands, Intelligence Community and International Partners. Moreover, the DI2E is the department’s capability architecture for Battlespace Awareness and Intelligence Mission Area: as such it is part of the DoD Joint Information Environment and must federate with the other capability architectures across the DoD. DI2E Center of Excellence has the mission to evolve the open standard architecture and forward leaning acquisition strategies that will allow broad reuse of off-the-shelf software capability modules developed by government programs or commercial industry.

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